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This dress code gives you a decent amount of wiggle room, but unless super-casual options like jeans are specified as acceptable, a pretty, laid-back dress or jumpsuit is a wedding-appropriate choice for guests

However, there's something very chic about a pared-back block-colour dress that lets the cut do the talking

18 Mabel Wisse Smit of Norway Getty Images Dutch Prince Johan Friso married his bride, Mabel Wisse Smit (now Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau) in 2004

Too small and you lose that great texture

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